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TRAFFIC

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: trafficked    , trafficking   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Social or verbal interchange (usually followed by 'with')

Synonyms:

dealings; traffic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("traffic" is a kind of...):

give-and-take; interchange; reciprocation (mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "traffic"):

relation ((usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Buying and selling; especially illicit trade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("traffic" is a kind of...):

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "traffic"):

drug traffic; drug trafficking; narcotraffic (traffic in illegal drugs)

barratry; simony (traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments)

slave trade; slave traffic (traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries)

Derivation:

traffic (trade or deal a commodity)

traffic (deal illegally)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time

Example:

traffic on the internet is lightest during the night

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("traffic" is a kind of...):

communicating; communication (the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("traffic" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "traffic"):

air traffic (traffic created by the movement of aircraft)

commuter traffic (traffic created by people going to or returning from work)

foot traffic; pedestrian traffic (people coming and going on foot)

vehicle traffic; vehicular traffic (the aggregation of vehicles coming and going in a particular locality)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trade or deal a commodity

Example:

They trafficked with us for gold

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "traffic" is one way to...):

merchandise; trade (engage in the trade of)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

traffic (buying and selling; especially illicit trade)

trafficker (someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deal illegally

Example:

traffic drugs

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "traffic" is one way to...):

merchandise; trade (engage in the trade of)

Domain category:

crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

traffic (buying and selling; especially illicit trade)

Credits

 Context examples: 

This protein is involved in lipid binding and may play a role in membrane trafficking.

(Copine-7, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes copine-7 protein, plays a role in the regulation of calcium-dependent membrane-binding protein interactions and may also be involved in membrane trafficking.

(CPNE7 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

That's not as loud as traffic on a busy street.

(Noise, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

This gene may be involved in subcellular trafficking.

(NRBP1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes nuclear receptor-binding protein, may play a role in the mediation of protein trafficking.

(NRBP1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in immunoregulation, protein folding, and protein trafficking and may play a role in neurons associated with memory.

(Peptidyl-Prolyl Cis-Trans Isomerase FKBP8, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the mediation of protein trafficking.

(Nascent Polypeptide-Associated Complex Subunit Alpha, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in immune cell chemotaxis and trafficking.

(CXCR3 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes CX3C chemokine receptor 1 protein, plays a role in leukocyte endothelial trafficking.

(CX3CR1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes small inducible cytokine B6 protein, is involved in leukocyte trafficking and the mediation of inflammatory responses.

(CXCL6 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)